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Frances Benjamin Johnston
Alice Lee Roosevelt (seated), December 18, 1902
toned gelatin silver print14 x 11 in. (35.56 x 27.94 cm)
Purchase, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and CSULB Foundation Grant. Study Collection.
Reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
© Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Frances Benjamin Johnston (American, 1864-1952)
Frances Benjamin Johnston was born in Grafton, West Virginia, in 1864, to an affluent family actively involved in Washington, D.C. social and political circles. She studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and at the Arts Students League in Washington. Johnston was given her first camera by family friend George Eastman and received instruction from the director of photography at the Smithsonian Institute. Regularly receiving commissions from popular periodicals, she also pursued architectural photography, documentary work, and portraiture, and worked as a White House photographer through five administrations, remaining active in the arts until her death in 1952.
